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This is an archive of news about BBC Radio Jersey. Some links may no longer work, due to the transient nature of the internet.

Fox's biscuits launches ad featuring New Jersey dog/panda hybrid
From Media Guardian. Posted May 28 2008, 6.16am
Biscuit maker Fox's is to launch a TV campaign fronted by an animated character dubbed a 'danda', a cross between a dog and a panda. By Mark Sweney (more)

Radiohead confirm double festival slot
From Digital Spy. Posted February 21 2008, 3.40pm
Radiohead will play two consecutive nights at the new American festival All Points West in New Jersey. (more)

New Caribbean radio station in New York
From Media Network Weblog. Posted February 10 2008, 12.44pm
One Caribbean Radio was launched in New York on Friday. The station, broadcasting on 620 AM, is a full service station established to meet the need in the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut tri-state area for a radio station that will programme a diversified format of Caribbean music, news, sports, talk and information to meet the needs [...] (more)

Russia Today starts broadcasting in NYC
From Media Network Weblog. Posted September 15 2007, 11.15am
Russia Today, the first English-speaking Russian news channel, is now available to Time Warner Cable of New York and New Jersey digital cable customers on Channel 135. Russia Today features round-the-clock analytical programs, documentaries and news, and highlights dynamic events taking place in modern day Russia with expert views on economics, politics, social issues, arts, [...] (more)

Vicar Of Dibley Powers up Comic Relief on Jersey
From Merry Media. Posted February 27 2007, 4.41pm
When Jersey suffered a power cut on Christmas Day, the phone lines of BBC Radio Jersey were inundated with callers complaining they had missed the first episode of The Vicar Of Dibley two-part Christmas special on BBC One.. (more)

Case against Jersey Post reporter is dropped after 6 months
From Press Gazette. Posted February 9 2007, 12.00am
Reporter Jonny Pearce, who was arrested while covering the football World Cup last summer, has finally had his case dropped. (more)

Former WOR radio towers to come down this morning
From Media Network Weblog. Posted January 11 2007, 1.09pm
Three giant radio towers alongside the New Jersey Turnpike are due to come down this morning. Police in Lyndhurst have approved the demolition, after halting an earlier planned demolition in September. Police had cited safety concerns and the possibility some people might confuse the demolition with a terrorist attack. The 700-foot tall towers are owned by [...] (more)

Jersey Evening Telegraph launches mobile clampdown campaign
From Press Gazette. Posted October 12 2006, 2.00pm
The Jersey Evening Telegraph has launched a campaign to clamp down on people who use their mobile phones while driving. (more)

Cops Stop Radio Tower Drop
From radio.about.com. Posted September 21 2006, 1.00am
From 1010wins.com: "Three giant radio towers -- that have been a fixture alongside the New Jersey Turnpike -- still stand in Lyndhurst, New Jersey. WOR radio had planned to take... (more)

Channel 103 to cease broadcasting
From Radio Today. Posted August 25 2006, 10.00am
Tindle-owned Jersey station Channel 103 is to closedown on Sunday 3rd September this year - making way for The All New Channel 103 which launches the next day. The brand new radio station will be the only one in Jersey to be live and local from 5am, with a brand new Early Breakfast Club presented by Katy Ringsdore. She will then join Peter Mac for a shorter, sharper All New Channel 103 Breakfast from 7am to 9am. (more)

Songs by Subject: Atlantic City Casinos Closed by New Jersey Budget Crisis
From radio.about.com. Posted July 7 2006, 3.57am
Radio stations, programmers, and deejays have used The Green Book of Songs By Subject for years. Each week it provides a new list of songs for a particular topic exclusively... (more)

New UK DAB allocations
From Radio Today. Posted June 26 2006, 2.45am
The 2006 Regional Radio Conference, which strongly affects future Band III licensing, has allocated various new channels to UK areas for possible DAB usage. The list details that block 11A maybe be used for the third national DAB multiplex, and that blocks as low in the band as 5A and 5C will be used for Suffolk and Jersey respectively - two of the many areas traditionally awkward to provide good coverage due to their close proximity to other European nations such as France, Belgium and the Netherlands. (more)

RRC makes new UK DAB allocations
From Radio Today. Posted June 23 2006, 2.15am
The 2006 Regional Radio Conference, which strongly affects future Band III licensing, has allocated various new channels to UK areas for possible DAB usage. The list details that block 11A maybe be used for the third national DAB multiplex, and that blocks as low in the band as 5A and 5C will be used for Suffolk and Jersey respectively - two of the many areas traditionally awkward to provide good coverage due to their close proximity to other European nations such as France, Belgium and the Netherlands. (more)

Update - Ryan Seacrest Walking Off New Jersey Radio Show Over "Gay" Question was a HOAX
From radio.about.com. Posted February 4 2006, 8.00pm
It's now apparent that what seemed to be an uncomfortable on-air interview for Ryan Seacrest at Jersey 101.5 (WKXW-FM) was really a hoax. The "Jersey Guys" admitted to the stunt on Friday. Earlier in the week, the following was blogged:... (more)

Ryan Seacrest Walks Off New Jersey Radio Show Over "Gay" Question
From radio.about.com. Posted February 3 2006, 10.30am
An uncomfortable on-air interview at Jersey 101.5 (WKXW-FM). According to Carl Barbati at Trentonian.com: "After a minute or two of niceties, [Craig] Carton asked Seacrest whom he’d rather spend the night with, past "Idol" singers Clay Aiken or Kelly Clarkson...'Ryan,... (more)

Radio pirates relaying Howard Stern's satellite show on FM
From Media Network Weblog. Posted January 13 2006, 4.15pm
Perhaps we should have expected this. At the end of the first week of Howard Stern's new show on Sirius Satellite Radio, pirate broadcasters are popping up on the FM band, relaying the Stern show. Today's New York Daily News reports broadcasts on 95.1 FM in New York and 101.5 FM in New Jersey. Not only are these illegal transmissions, but they also include profanities which are banned under the (more)